Father Malebranche His Treatise Concerning the Search After Truth ... To which is Added the Author's Treatise of Nature and Added the Author's Treatise of Nature and Grace ... Together with His Answer to the Animadversions Upon the First Volume: His Defence Against the Accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c. Relating to the Same Subject. All Translated by T. Taylor ...


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Father Malebranche, His Treatise Concerning the Search After Truth


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Excerpt from Father Malebranche, His Treatise Concerning the Search After Truth: The Whole Work Complete; To Which Is Added the Author's Treatise of Nature and Grace We are even hard put to't to judge with any kind of certainty of: the Relation there is betwixt two Bodies though never fo near us. We are forc'd to take them in our hands, and hold them one againft the other to. Compare them 5 and after all, we often hefitate without being able juitly to determine any thing. This is vifin acknowledg'd as often as a Man are biggeit of fome pieces, of Coin that are almoft equal; for he is, then oblig'd to put them one upon another, to difcover by, a furer Method than by Sight whether they correfpond in bigners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.







Father Malebranche | His | Treatise | Concerning the | Search After Truth. | The Whole Work Complete. | To which is Added | The Author's Treatise | Of | Nature and Grace: | Being | A Consequence of the Principles Contained in | the Search. | Together with | His Answer to the Animadversions Upon the First Volume: | His Defence Against the Accusations of Monsieur De la Ville, &c. | Relating to the Same Subject


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"It is evident that God can have no other end of acting than Himself; that he cannot create Spirits but to know and love Him that he can neither give them any knowledge, nor impress upon them any love, but what is for, and tends to Himself; but he might have refused to unite our bodies those spirits which He has united. Therefore the relation of our minds to God is natural, necessary, and absolutely indispensable, but their relation to our bodies, though natural, is not of absolute necessity, nor of indispensable obligation. It is not difficulty to make out to attentive persons, and such as are skilled in true philosophy: for they need only be put in mind, that since the will of God regulates the nature of all things, it is more congenial to the nature of the soul to be united with God, that to be united to the body. First, we shall speak of the errors of the senses; secondly of the errors of imagination; thirdly, of the errors of pure intellect; fourthly, of the errors of our inclinations; and fifthly, of the errors of the passions. And thus, having made an essay to rid of the soul of the error which she's subject to, we shall, lastly, lay down a general method to conduct her in the search for truth"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).